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hyperaccumulator en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin accumulātorbor. English accumulator English hyperaccumulator From hyper- + accumulator.

Meanings

1. Any plant that can accumulate large quantities of trace elements from its environment, and thus may be used in phytoremediation or phytomining.
   • Also, the progress of constructing ideal hyperaccumulators by using biological technologies is slow. 2008, M. N. V. Prasad, Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients, page 72:
   • To date, over 400 species have been identified as hyperaccumulators, with this number increasing continuously as new species are identified (Baker et al., 2000). 2010, Peter M. Kopittke, Enzo Lombi, Neal W. Menzies, Ravi Naidu, “21: Principles of Plant-based Remediation of Contaminated Soils”, in Bharat P. Singh, editor, Industrial Crops and Uses, page 448:
   • Hyperaccumulator species are able to accumulate higher metal concentrations in their shoots than surrounding nonaccumulator plants, even from soils containing nonphytotoxic background levels of metals [35-37]. 2000, Donald L. Wise, Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils, page 735:

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phytoremediation · hyperaccumulation · phytomining